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An evening discussing falling enrollment in #STEM courses at universities across Europe, especially traditional studies like chemistry, geology and meteorology. I wonder if young people are unaware of just how interesting #STEM careers to be? Or do they have the perception it's "too hard" compared to other subjects where easier grades may be had? Or is it simply they think they can have "better"* jobs in other fields?
#AcademicChatter
*Where better might mean higher paid, more prestigious, more certain of employment, or less workload or some combination of all of these... ?

Holy shit

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/12/21/documents-reveal-harvard-salient-complaint/

Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that later became central to the board’s decision to suspend the magazine.

Jesus fuck. Now you’re just embarrassing the species.
#uspol

Fact Check: Is Mamdani Introducing Arabic Numerals To New York Schools?
Arabic numerals are simply the digits 0 through 9—the standard number symbols used in every classroom in the United States.

STM32MP2 PCIe update: I'm calling things brought up and working at this point.
Working on the test board now. It's going reasonably fast since a lot of it is cribbed from other projects and I already had made a sch symbol for the MP257 (although I found a few errors in it sinc eI had never actually made a board design around it or done a full design review).

from my link log —
Software architecture is overrated, clear and simple design is underrated.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-architecture-is-overrated/
saved 2019-09-19

Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated
I had my fair share in designing and building large systems. I've taken part in rewriting Uber's distributed payment systems [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/distributed-architecture-concepts-i-have-learned-while-building-payments-systems/] , designing and shipping Skype on Xbox One and open-sourcing RIBs [https://github.com/uber/RIBs], Uber's mobile architecture framework. All of these systems had thorough

Tons of updates to my CM tool:
* An agent for continuous management with fast-monitoring features
* JSON Schemas for editors
* Manifests and Hiera now support HTTP(s)
* ccm extendible with appbuilder for custom UIs around manifests (no code needed)
* Pre-, Post-messages to help users use things they installed
* Generic if / unless on every resource
* New docs
Focus is to excel at adhoc, snow flakes, devel VMs, a la carte CM etc, place where other too…

Det fŸles næsten lidt skamfuldt, når jeg mærker en lille fysisk reaktion over hvor kikset et skiltedesign på et lille forsamlingshus bare *slet* ikke passer til bygningen skiltet sidder på. Det er ellers ikke fordi jeg som sådan er en designsnob, men hold nu kæft, hvor det ser kikset ud.

Jerry Jones makes unbelievable claim about Cowboys decision to fire Matt Eberflus https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/jerry-jones-makes-unbelievable-claim-about-cowboys-decision-to-fire-matt-eberflus

Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/google-is-going-all-in…

Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools | TechCrunch
Google is rolling out managed MCP servers to make its services “agent-ready by design,” starting with Maps and BigQuery, aiming to simplify messy integrations and help AI agents use real tools.

Jerry Jones makes unbelievable claim about Cowboys decision to fire Matt Eberflus https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/jerry-jones-makes-unbelievable-claim-about-cowboys-decision-to-fire-matt-eberflus